ONONDAGA — Friends and neighbors will gather for games, food and music during the 2012 Onondaga Homecoming on Saturday.

The festival, a community tradition from 1970 to 2005, was revived last year by the Onondaga Fire Department.

“This is a time for the community to get together, enjoy each other and visit,” said Onondaga Fire Chief Jim Tow, the homecoming coordinator.

This year’s event will include a parade, a classic car show, a chicken barbecue, carnival games, children’s inflatable attractions, a horse-pulling competition, a kids’ pedal-tractor pull and an evening street dance.

Tow said the festival was resurrected last year to serve as a fundraiser for the fire department. Firefighters will raise funds with the chicken barbecue, the children’s games and a dunk tank. They will also sell festival T-shirts.

Last year, the department raised more than $1,500 during the festival.

The festival kicks off at 9 a.m. with registration for the classic car show, sponsored by Clone’s Country Store. The car show is free and all participants receive dash plaques. Last year the car show featured about 40 vehicles.

Clone’s co-owner Pat Clone said the car show will have two divisions: one for cars made before 1950 and the other for post-1950 vehicles. Participants will vote for their favorite entries. The winner of each division will earn a trophy.

Clone and his wife, Peg, served as festival coordinators from 1997 to 2005.

“I’m hoping it turns out good and everybody has a good time,” Clone said. “It sounds like they have more kid-friendly things downtown this year and they’ve added the horse pulls. … I’m sure this year is going to be an improvement from last year.”

The Homecoming parade will proceed down Oak Street starting at 11 a.m. It will include classic cars, tractors, floats, clowns and more.

The firefighters’ chicken barbecue begins at 11:30 a.m. The horse-pull starts at noon. A ping-pong ball drop, with balls numbered corresponding to kids’ prizes, will take place at noon.

The children’s pedal-tractor pull starts at 1 p.m. It is sponsored by Artz Farms of Springport.

The festival will continue into the evening with live music and street dancing, starting at 5 p.m. Music will be provided by local groups BrodberG and the Mark Arshak Band.